A palaeomagnetic study from the Mongol-Okhotsk region: rotated early Cretaceous volcanics and remagnetized Mesozoic sediments

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 159, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 133-145

  Halim, Nadir ^a   Kravchinsky, Vadim ^b   Gilder, Stuart ^a   Cogné, Jean Pascal ^a   Alexyutin, Maxim ^b   Sorokin, Andrey ^b   Courtillot, Vincent ^a   Chen, Yan ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; CRETACEOUS; PALAEOMAGNETISM; REMAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

MONGOLIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION, OKHOTSK REGION;

EID: 0032580990     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00072-7     Document Type: Article

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